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| 1. | the founder of Rome, in 753 b.c., and its first king: a son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, he and his twin brother (Remus) were abandoned as babies, suckled by a she-wolf, and brought up by a shepherd; Remus was finally killed for mocking the fortifications of Rome, which Romulus had just founded. |
| 2. | a town in S Michigan. 24,857. |
| Rom·u·lus (rŏm'yə-ləs) n. Roman Mythology The son of Mars and eponymous founder of Rome who, with his twin brother, Remus, was reared and suckled by a wolf. |